Will Java ever allow comments to nest?

[Alex Buckley]

On 7/2/2020 7:15 AM, Pavel Rappo wrote:
> While experimenting with comments I found that IntelliJ IDEA thinks that these are valid comments:
> 
>      /* \u002a/ */
>      /* *\u002f */
> 
> These comments are invalid for the same reason this is not a valid string literal:
> 
>      "Hello,\u000Aworld"
> 
> JLS specifies that the compiler translates Unicode escapes as the first step of lexical translation, 2 steps before comments are discarded:
> 
>      https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-3.html
> 
> I filed a bug against IDEA:
> 
>      https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-245018
Thank you for filing this bug, and (from looking at the comments in 
youtrack) helping the vendor to better understand it.

Alex